| MONTBRETIA | Britten composition found inside Bird's plant (10) |
| WAREQUIEM | 1961 Britten composition |
| CREOSOTE | Oily liquid worryingly rose inside bird's shelter (8) |
| PEDILANTHUS | Small genus of bushy, succulent shrubs, closely allied to euphorbia, which includes the Japanese poinsettia and bird plant (11) |
| WARREN | Artist climbing inside bird colony of fast breeders |
| MOSSIE | (A) There is something coming up inside bird (6) |
| FIELDGUIDE | Book identifying birds, plants, etc. |
| ENCYCLOPAEDIA | Played oceanic composition found in book (13) |
| RAINWATER | Rare Twain composition found in puddle! (9) |
| SONATA | Composition found amongst some papers on a table |
| BLOEDEL | Vancouver's domed birds/plants attraction, ___ Conservatory |
| SWALLOWS | To get birds, plants seeds round masonry structure (8) |
| WARREQUIEM | Timeless, warmer, quiet composition of Britten? (3,7) |
| QUINTUPLET | Britten role promoted: allowed five notes in place of four (10) |
| PETERPEARS | Tenor once associated with Benjamin Britten |
| PTERGRIMES | Benjamin Britten opera |
| LETSMAKEAN | 1949 'entertainment for young people' by Benjamin Britten (4,4,2) |
| ABOYWASBORN | Choral composition by Benjamin Britten (1,3,3,4) |
| MISSABREVIS | A shorter musical mass composition, such as a 1959 work by Benjamin Britten and a 1989 work by Leonard Bernstein (5,6) |
| OWEN | "___ Wingrave" (Britten opera) |
